February 18th 2026 (already!) Welcome to this week’s Oracle Analytics and Data Warehousing roundup — a quick TL;DR summary of useful updates, blog posts, and technical resources from across the Oracle community. As always, this focuses specifically on Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), Autonomous Data Warehouse, Fusion Analytics, and useful SQL…
Category: OBIEE
July News
1. Using Spatial Studio to Extend / Enhance Dimensions for OAC Wayne D Van Sluys writes, “Oracle Spatial Studio is a great tool that can be leveraged to extend or enhance location based data you may already be working with in your analytic projects.” He walks us through an example…
December Musings
1. Lock Control in Database Onur Ardahnli began with, “In today’s article, we will discuss checking for LOCKs in the database, which is one of the checks we perform when there is a problem in the database.” 2. Spring Cleaning This blog goes through two different scenarios and concludes with: “Wrangling…
Monthly Round Up
This blog by Federico Venturin links to his article ‘Handling Fine-Grained Data Visualization Permissions in Oracle Analytics Cloud.’ It goes through: In his conclusion, he writes, “Until now, the all-or-nothing approach for handling permissions in Data Visualization posed a significant hurdle to its widespread adoption since administrators understandably preferred to…
Pre-Christmas Blog
I’d love to take this opportunity to wish you a wonderful festive season – and all the very best for 2023. If you’ve got a few moments amongst the mince pie eating, here are some great blogs and videos to read and watch: Blogs of the month Star Schema Design…
Mid-October News
Blogs of the week 1. indirect partition pruning This blog begins with, “During one of the discussions, <at POUG2022> I claimed Oracle can – under specific circumstances – do a partition pruning, even when the partition key isn’t somewhere defined as a filter. It’s probably easiest to show it by a…
Back to School
Have you had a good Summer? Here’s a round up of the blogs that have caught my eye over July and August: Why you simply can’t upgrade from Oracle 11g or 12c to Oracle 23c Mike Dietrich shares why this isn’t just a simple upgrade. You MUST upgrade to Oracle…
Autumn Days…
Blogs of the month 1.10 Best Database Management Software of 2021 (+ Examples) This blog lists the Best Database Management Software as: ManageEngine Applications Manager DBeaver Raima Database Manager Valentina Redis Enterprise DbVisualizer Oracle Database Database Labs Sadas Engine Percona Monitoring and Management and gives an extensive overview of each….
A mid-September blog
Blogs of the Week 1.OBIEE – SSO — Integrating with a third party login with AD authentication / passing user and pass in URL Erman Arslan begins by saying, “Implementing SSO or Windows Native authentication in OBIE is something we do frequently. Basically, we integrate OBIEE with Microsoft Active Directory…
OAS – Oracle Analytics Server
All things ‘OAS’. 1.Oracle Analytics Server to replace OBIEE Mazen Manasseh writes about the following advantages: Business users benefit from enhanced Data Visualization and Data Preparation features. Augmented analytics with machine learning capabilities become available to end-users. Analytics platform remains Oracle supported so you get the latest features and remain…